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The popularity of online ordering has indeed greatly improved the convenience of people's dining, bringing convenience and garbage at the same time. Recently, Ele.me, Baidu Waimai, and Meituan Waimai have once again brought to the forefront of public opinion the environmental protection issues caused by takeout meal boxes.

Let's look at a few waves of data:

The major online food ordering platforms need 14.6 billion meal boxes a year, and the express delivery industry needs 12 billion plastic bags and 24.7 billion meters of sealing tape a year;

"Ele.me" was also released recently, showing that the number of users in the Chinese market has reached 600 million, and in 2016, the proportion of online takeaway users who consumed more than 3 times a week accounted for as high as 63.3%;

According to information released by Meituan’s official website, Meituan currently has 12 million daily orders and 200 million users. According to one order, one plastic box and one plastic bag, at least 24 million plastic products are consumed every day.

According to the public data of the three major food delivery platforms, the daily order volume of the three major food delivery platforms is about 7 million. If one plastic bag is used for each takeaway, and each plastic bag is 0.06 square meters, the plastic bags used every day can cover 420,000 square meters. meters, equivalent to 59 football fields.

256 million people - this is the scale of online food ordering users in China in 2016 according to the statistics of iiMedia Research. According to the calculation of each person ordering one takeaway per day, 256 million takeaways will be delivered to users every day, of which at least 256 million will be generated every day. lunch boxes and plastic bags.

The "white pollution" caused by countless plastic lunch boxes, disposable chopsticks, plastic bags and other take-out garbage has intensified again, and the phenomenon of "besieged cities" of take-out garbage is becoming more and more serious.

At present, most of the food waste, plastic bag lunch boxes and packaging bag waste mixed with take-out waste can only be "mixed" with urban domestic waste, enter the waste treatment system, and finally be incinerated or landfilled as ordinary waste. Jiang Jianguo, a professor at the Institute of Solid Waste Control at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, said that the value of directly recycled lunch boxes is relatively low. "From the perspective of the sanitation system, takeaway packaging waste has caused a substantial increase in the amount of urban domestic waste. The capacity of an urban sanitation system and terminal processing capabilities, such as landfills and incinerators, are limited, and now the pressure on the urban sanitation system is limited. It is very big. In the future, how to manage takeaway garbage, whether it can be reduced at the source, how to carry out effective classification guidance, and increase the recycling ratio, in addition to charging the processing fees of catering factories and takeaway platforms, it is also necessary to have corresponding policy guidance in technology and management Improving materials will increase costs, and how to make consumers willing to spend more money to contribute to environmental protection and take more responsibility are all issues to be considered.”

A plastic restriction order was issued before, but the production cost of plastic bags is very low, and more charges are charged at the use link, so now the use of plastic bags is showing signs of rebound. From this point of view, if the environmental protection tax is levied on plastic bags and take-out lunch boxes in the production process, the production cost can be increased, so that merchants and consumers have to consider the purchase cost when using plastic bags or take-out lunch boxes. For environmental protection, such as investing in research and development of plastic degradation technology. " Zhou Zhihui said.

The survey shows that 41.1% of the respondents are willing to pay for takeaway garbage disposal, 32.0% of the respondents are not willing, and 26.9% of the respondents are hard to say. "I would have paid for a lunch box, and it would not be a burden to spend more money to buy an environmentally friendly one." Zhao Shuang is willing to pay more for the disposal of take-out garbage, "but I feel that the business should take more responsibility, at least to Prepare eco-friendly lunch boxes and bags".

"Plastics are cheap, strong in texture, and easy to process. However, degradable plastics are expensive, and paper lunch boxes are more prone to breakage and are not convenient to use." Jiang Jianguo said that some environmentally friendly and degradable lunch boxes There are both cost and practical problems in promotion.

"my country's food delivery industry is developing too fast, and the international food delivery industry has not grown so fast, and the amount of food waste generated is within the expected range. In addition to plastics, some foreign places also use some thin aluminum and The composite material of paper is similar to the lunch box on the plane, but the cost is higher than that of the plastic lunch box." Jiang Jianguo said that the promotion of the degradable material lunch box involves the formulation of relevant policy standards, although my country also has packaging laws and user payment regulations As well as the extension of producer responsibility, etc., but since takeaway garbage is a new problem, whether it can be included in the corresponding regulations still needs to improve the corresponding regulations and standards.